'Carol' Q&A | Todd Haynes

On the opening night of our recent retrospective of his work, Todd Haynes took the stage at a double-feature screening of 'Carol' and his cited influence on it, 'Lovers and Lollipops.'
Todd Haynes’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s early novel stars Cate Blanchett as the titular Carol, a wealthy suburban wife and mother, and Rooney Mara as an aspiring photographer. They meet by chance, fall in love almost at first sight, and defy the closet of the early 1950s to be together. Working with his longtime cinematographer Ed Lachman and shooting on the Super-16 film he favors for its echoes of the movie history of 20th-century America, Haynes charts subtle shifts of power and desire in images that are alternately luminous and oppressive. Blanchett and Mara are both splendid; the erotic connection between their characters is palpable from beginning to end, as much in its repression as in eagerly claimed moments of expressive freedom. Originally published under a pseudonym, Carol is Highsmith’s most affirmative work; Haynes has more than done justice to the multilayered emotions evoked by the original. A Weinstein Company release. An NYFF53 selection.
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[@picaporte112]

"It's a lesbian gun in the film so it doesn't shoot" love this guy, a great director with a great sense of humor.

[@BoysLikeMeee]

+Bosques A Pie I wondered why the gun wasn't loaded. Probably just a gun laying around the house that Carol grabbed before the road trip! lol

[@pattigee1]

+Bosques A Pie Yeah, it's not a guy thing.